Dodging a Bullet

I woke up Friday morning exhausted and achy. You know that feeling you get right before you get the flu: your legs feel heavy, your head is dizzy and every few minutes you get that wave of achiness that engulfs your insides? That was me.

I literally kept telling myself (out loud) that I wasn't going to get sick. There was no way I was going to let my body do this to me after all the training I have done for this race. It's bad enough I had to drop out of my second marathon in Miami last January due to IT band issues, I wasn't going to let this happen again. With all the disappointments I have faced in the past year, I didn't think I could handle this one.

So I chalked it up to Taper Madness, grabbed my new shoes and went on my 7 mile run.



And a funny thing happened, while I was still pretty lethargic throughout the run, all the other symptoms mysteriously went away. I figured I really was losing my mind.

Then Jeremy came home.

Poor thing. He has been coughing up a lung since Friday. He's really been sick and while he says he is feeling better today and that he thinks it's moving through him pretty fast, I can tell he still feels like crap. I can hear him hacking right now on the floor below me as I type this. I think he will be OK by gameday, but it's still a really sh*tty time to get a cold.

Needless to say, I have been downing this stuff like it's green beer on St Patricks Day.



I'm not taking any chances. The last thing I need is for him to get all better and then I wake up Saturday morning feeling like crap. I already think I started to sort of come down with it, I just don't know why it never manifested itself.

So we skipped our last long run together on Saturday morning so he could rest and I ventured out this morning by myself. It kind of sucked doing our last run of the training by myself, since we started this thing together, but since it was only 8.4 miles, it wasn't a big deal.

The run was OK, but like all the other runs I have had the past 2-3 weeks, I felt very sluggish the entire time. Especially the first 2 miles. I am really going to try to take it easy this week and let myself rest. I think I will do 2 more shorter runs (4-6 miles) and maybe 30 minutes on the elliptical. That will be it. I am also serious about getting plenty of sleep this week which I think is what messed me up so much last week. I'm all out of wack. One night I'll get 5.5 hours and the next I'll get 10. I need to even it out.

Other than that, all is good. Weather.com is showing the weather for Sunday on the 10 day forecast now, so guess who is on weather.com every other 5 minutes? It went from Sunny and 52, to 42 and snow showers. Now it is at a high of 48 and sunny, which I think is pretty perfect. Please don't change mighty weather.com God.

Lastly, I noticed this new Disney movie, Bolt the other day. It seems as though I have seen these characters somewhere before...




Monday, 11/10 - 7 miles/1:04:50 - 9:13
Tuesday, 11/11 - off
Wednesday, 11/12 - off
Thursday, 11/13 - off
Friday, 11/14 - 7 miles/ 1:03:19 - 9:02 pace
Saturday, 11/15 -off
Sunday, 11/16 - 8.4 miles/1:18:10 - 9:15 pace

Total Weekly Mileage: 22.3 (RUN)
Total Weekly Mileage: 0 (BIKE)